Jeannie C. Riley - Part Of Honey lyrics

The teacher said it's time to think about the annual fate

To be put on that scene sponsored by the PTA

Most of you have seen the script and now the question is

Who would like to play the part of honey

The part calls for a lady who was beauty wit and charm

Who falls in love with Jerry Walsh of Merry Meadow Farm

In the end they marry and go off to see the world

Now who would like to play the part of honey

[ harmonica ]

The hand of Sally Jordon slowly raised into the air

Other members of the class all turned around to stare

For Sally Jordon was a poor girl it was plain to see

She could never play the part of honey

The teacher just pretended that she didn't see a hand

Instead she picked the daughter of a very wealthy man

Poor and pretty Sally sat there holdin' back her tears

She wanted so to play the part of honey

[ harmonica ]

The play went off without her and as graduation came

Sally Jordon went away and they forgot her name

But Sally Jordon never did forget the high school play

She didn't get to play the part of honey

One day there was news about a movie in the town

People came to see it for a hundred miles around

For there was someone in it that the population knew

Sally Jordon played the part of honey

Perhaps the moral of the story's neighter here nor there

For beauty is as beauty does and wit and charm are airs

When all has been considered it's difficult to tell

Just who it is that fits the part of honey